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21) The broken blade
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
163 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Pierre LaPage's father has an accident, thirteen-year-old Pierre must quit school and paddle a canoe 2400 miles as a voyageur for the North West Company in order to earn money for his family.
22) Bones to ashes
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
509 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
When Calls the Heart volume Book 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Christine and her older brother Henry are facing life's decisions. Henry has found the love of his life, and he and Amber are planning their wedding. Christine is recovering from the pain of a broken relationship.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
87 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While acting as a snowboard, Stanley Lambchop gets carried away by a strong wind, sending him and his new friend Nick on a cross-country Canadian adventure.
25) The gathering
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets.
26) The night garden
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Franny Whitekraft lives quietly with her adopted parents on a farm on Vancouver Island until the spring of 1945 when the three Madden children move in, UFOs and ghosts appear, and an important military airplane disappears.
Author
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
150 p. : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1912, fearing for the safety of her beloved Newfoundland dog Sirius because of a new law outlawing non-sheepherding dogs in her Newfoundland village, twelve-year-old Maggie tries to save him by keeping him hidden.
28) Sketches
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After running away from home, fifteen-year-old Dana finds friends on the Toronto streets, and, eventually, a way to come to terms with what has happened to her.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
In a near-future Toronto where the British Empire never fell, Helena, August, and Margaret are caught off-guard by the discovery of a love so intense they are willing to change the course of the monarchy to keep it.
Author
Series
Canadian crossings volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Quinten Aspinall is determined to fulfill a promise he made to his deceased father to keep his family together. To do so, he must travel to Canada to find his younger siblings, who were sent there as indentured workers while Quinn was away at war. He is also solicited by his employer to look for the man's niece who ran off with a Canadian soldier. If Quinn can bring Julia back, he will receive his own tenant farm, enabling him to provide a home for...
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
162 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume no. 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
87 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While acting as a snowboard, Stanley Lambchop gets carried away by a strong wind, sending him and his new friend Nick on a cross-country Canadian adventure.
33) Elijah of Buxton
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Midwife Clara Perry is accustomed to comforting her pregnant patients, calming fathers-to-be as they anxiously await the birth of their children, and ensuring the babies she delivers come safely into the world. But when Clara's life takes a nosedive, she realizes she hasn't been tending to her own needs and does something drastic: she runs away and starts over again in a place where no one knows her or the mess she's left behind in West Virginia....
Author
Series
Canadian crossings volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
349 p.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of World War I, Grace hopes to reclaim her nephew, Christian, from the relatives who rejected her sister because of her social class. Under an alias, she goes to Toronto and becomes her orphaned nephew's nanny. Observing the family up close, she begins to fall for Andrew Easton, the boy's guardian. Andrew is promised to a spoiled socialite who is sure to make a terrible stepmother. Can Grace protect her nephew... and her heart?
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
117 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Aldens visit an old camp in Quebec, Canada, and begin to suspect that someone or something is trying to scare them away from the place.
37) Acceleration
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets.
Author
Series
Canadian crossings volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Grace Abernathy's sister is rejected by the Easton family because of her low social class, Grace uses an assumed name to secure a position as her nephew Christian's nanny to see to his well-being, and ends up falling for the boy's guardian.